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September 1955

 
  • Vernon Watkins
  • Roy Campbell
  • Dannie Abse
  • Nelson Bentley
  • Allen Curnow
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Fathers and Sons

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Anniversary

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The Old Blind Man in Spring

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Table of Contents

Six Poems
  • Reed Whittemore
    • Fathers and Sons
    • An English Teacher
    • Another Teacher
    • God's Acres
Two Poems
  • Dannie Abse
    • Anniversary
    • Poem and Message
  • James E. Schevill
    • The Old Blind Man in Spring
  • Marcia Lee Masters
    • The Memory
  • Don Gordon
    • The Middle Passage
  • Stanley Moss
    • A Spanish Landscape
  • Nelson Bentley
    • The Eye
Three Poems
  • W. R. Johnson
    • Signs for Travelers
    • Hunting Tale
    • The Cabin Builders
  • Roger Hecht
    • Summer's End
  • Harold Witt
    • Beasts
Three Poems
  • William Pillin
    • Berceuse
    • Nocturne with Ghosts
    • On Hearing Frederick Play the Appassionata
  • Paul Goodman
    • Wellfleet Harbor
  • Phyllis Haring
    • Oman the Diver
Two Poems
  • Allen Curnow
    • To Forget Self and All
    • He Cracked a Word
Two Poems
  • Ned O'Gorman
    • A Poem about a Prince
    • The Rose and the Body of the Rose
Three Poems
  • James Wright
    • Morning Hymn to a Dark Girl
    • Erinna to Sappho
    • Sappho's Child
Two Views of Cummings
  • John Logan
    • Six of One and Six Hundred of the Other
  • Vernon Watkins
    • E. E. Cummings: The World of "Un"
Reviews
  • John H. Meyer
    • The Too Easily Lost
  • Roy Campbell
    • The Poetry of Ewart Milne
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Dannie Abse
  • Nelson Bentley
  • Roy Campbell
  • Allen Curnow
  • Paul Goodman
  • Don Gordon
  • Phyllis Haring
  • Roger Hecht
  • W. R. Johnson
  • John Logan
  • Marcia Lee Masters
  • John H. Meyer
  • Stanley Moss
  • Ned O'Gorman
  • William Pillin
  • James E. Schevill
  • Vernon Watkins
  • Reed Whittemore
  • Harold Witt
  • James Wright
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